Home Opinion 2 ways the Left encourages and legitimizes political violenceShortly after Charlie Kirk took his dying breath, now-former MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd uttered the words on live cable TV that cost him his job, while also providing Americans with a chilling illustration of one of the most common ways the Left legitimizes and thereby encourages political violence against its opponents. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. Note the progression: Hateful thoughts produce hateful words produce hateful actions. What the Left does in this process is redefine what constitutes “hate speech” as anything espoused by those opposed to the Left. Thus, the real perpetrator of political violence is actually the victim of hate speech by the Left’s opponents.